Dash
product on 7 shows · 12 statements across 4 episodes · said 53 times in 9 episodes since 2013
Top Founders 35 
the Startup Ideas Podcast 8 
20VC 5 
the MAD Podcast 2 
the a16z Podcast 2 
Capital Allocators 1 
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Houston: Dropbox built Dash to be untethered from file systems
“So with Dash, we wanted to make something that was really, like, cloud native, AI native, and deliberately, like, not be tied down to the abstractions of the file system.”
Taba: Platforms for junior designers lack viable business models
“There was just no clear path to revenue with junior designers, folks who were looking to get into the game with essentially not an established career or job. They didn't have a ton of income to spend on education, on content, et cetera. And companies, I don't …”
Dixon: Protocol network tokens require a distinct valuation model from digital commodities
“My personal nomenclature, like I think of in the first bucket, the commodity bucket, there's Bitcoin, there's Monero, Zcash, maybe Dash. And then there's this other thing, which is kind of the networks, call them fat protocols, call them tokens. There's this w…”
Dash uses explicit network voting instead of Reddit debates
“We have an explicit governance system that allows the network to actually vote on changes as opposed to kind of having Reddit debates about what should happen next that can rage on for quite some time with other cryptocurrencies.”
Operating a Dash masternode requires proving ownership of 1,000 Dash
“Master nodes are special nodes on our network. In order to operate one, and anyone can the only prerequisite being proving ownership over a thousand dash.”
Largest Dash masternode holders control at most 3% of the network
“Yeah, we have a couple of larger holders that, that potentially, you know no one can verify for sure, but claims are around 75 to a hundred, and that's pretty much where they max out. So, about three percent of the network.”
Dash was the first cryptocurrency to introduce instant transactions
“One is, we're the first cryptocurrency to introduce instant transactions.”
Dash splits block rewards between miners, masternodes, and a treasury
“We split it. 45% goes towards miners, 45% towards the infrastructure, the masternode owners, and 10% is set aside for treasury, and once a month there is a super block created that can create up to that 10%.”
Dash's monthly treasury allocation is worth approximately $1.2 million
“It's about 1.2 million dollars right now.”
Dash funded Charlie Shrem to build a US debit card
“Charlie Shrem just came to us and with a proposal to create a U.S. Debit card and receive funding from the network. He's gone and done that, and it's launching later this month.”
BitCart disabled Bitcoin payments after Dash drove 90% of business
“We have funded BitCart who, an integration into BitCart. They're a service that allows you to buy Amazon gift cards for 15% discount. And after integrating Dash, they actually disabled Bitcoin because Bitcoin transactions were taking a long time. They were cau…”